Tucker Carlson demolishes the unbalanced Bill Nye

First, the video.

Let us not forget, as was mentioned, that Bill Nye said skeptics of global warming suffer from delusions of cognitive dissonance. He also suggested the skeptics of global warming might be better served as being imprisoned not unlike war criminals.

“You’re using the language of politics. You’re not a scientist as you know, you’re a popularizer.”

As a reminder, from the WashingtonTimes.com:

Bill Nye, the science guy, is open to criminal charges and jail time for climate change dissenters

by Valerie Richardson

Bill Nye “the science guy” says in a video interview released Thursday that he is open to the idea of jailing those who deviate from the climate change consensus.

Asked about the heated rhetoric surrounding the climate change debate, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s previous comments that some climate skeptics should be prosecuted as war criminals, Mr. Nye replied, “We’ll see what happens.”

“Was it appropriate to jail the guys from Enron?” Mr. Nye asked in a video interview with Climate Depot’s Marc Morano. “We’ll see what happens. Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive, and so on?”

Of course. But here’s the money shot:

“In these cases, for me, as a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen,” Mr. Nye said. “So I can see where people are very concerned about this, and they’re pursuing criminal investigations as well as engaging in discussions like this.”

Already, under BBC protocols, one cannot disagree with GW/CC and find yourself employed by Auntie Beebe.

BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal air time to climate change deniers

by Jessica Chasmar

The BBC’s governing body has ordered staff to stop giving equal air time to climate change deniers and other scientific experts with a “marginal opinion.”

The BBC Trust published a progress report analyzing the corporation’s science coverage and found it remains prone to “over-rigid application of editorial guidelines on impartiality” that resulted in the BBC giving “undue attention to marginal opinion,” The Telegraph reported.

Note to so-called “scientists,” Bill Nye and the Religious Left (the Religious Left are those persons who believe in “global warming” — now transmutated to “climate change” because it’s so much more comprehensive — . NOAA lied about their global warming statistics, skewing them purposely. Why? Because cash money is attached to these studies and there is competition for this cash provided by GOWPs. From the WashingtonTimes.com:

Climate change whistleblower alleges NOAA manipulated data to hide global warming ‘pause’

by Valerie Richardson

Former federal climatologist John Bates blasts 2015 NOAA study as other scientists defend its conclusions

The climate change debate went nuclear Sunday over a whistleblower’s explosive allegation that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association manipulated data to advance a political agenda by hiding the global warming “pause.”

In an article on the Climate Etc. blog, John Bates, who retired last year as principal scientist of the National Climatic Data Center, accused the lead author of the 2015 NOAA “pausebuster” report of trying to “discredit” the hiatus through “flagrant manipulation of scientific integrity guidelines and scientific publication standards.”

In addition, Mr. Bates told the Daily [U.K.] Mail that the report’s author, former NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information director Thomas Karl, did so by “insisting on decisions and scientific choices that maximized warming and minimized documentation.”

“Gradually, in the months after [the report] came out, the evidence kept mounting that Tom Karl constantly had his ‘thumb on the scale’ — in the documentation, scientific choices, and release of datasets — in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus and rush to time the publication of the paper to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy,” Mr. Bates said Saturday on Climate Etc.

Second note to Bill Nye and the Religious Left: climate does in fact change. I can look out my window and see it.

The weather in my area changes frequently; sometimes by the hour. In Fornicalia where I live, there has been a drought for the past seven years. Last winter in 2015/2016 the El Nino was supposed to even things out because, allegedly, El Ninos bring wet weather. It was a dud.

This winter, Fornicalia is now mostly out of the drought (definitely out of the drought in Northern Fornicalia where I live in the Sierra Nevada mountains) and the Sierra Nevada snowpack is 150% of normal. In the meantime, there is no snow in Chicago.

Climate does indeed change. And the record keeping on weather has documented only a minuscule amount of planetary history at best, to the point where I submit that computer models must be constantly updated due to new information and input. We cannot yet make adequate prognostications under the most ideal of conditions. You cannot convince me that much of what we see is in fact cyclical and natural.

I have, bottom line, yet to be convinced beyond the shadow of any doubt that “climate change” — which any rational human being realizes occurs — is obviously anthropogenic in nature. Because for any argument in favor, I can show you an argument against.

I submit that we as a species are not nearly as smart as we think we are, when it comes to Planet Earth. We make a rather elitist and arrogant assumption that we can truly know and predict actions of this third rock from the sun.

BZ

 

US government arming against you

US Armed DivisionsIs this not incredible?  NOAA needs a SWAT team, as does BLM and FWS and FRB?

And from whom do these divisions anticipate an assault?

From you, you incipient Prole, you Groundling, you Serf.

You should not laugh.  You do so at your own detriment.

Your federal government gearing up.

BZ

 

Lies Al Gore told me

LIES BY Josef GoebbelsAnd it is upon these lies that various heads of state (think: Barack Hussein Obama) wish to predicate state and nation-busting economic and societal change.  Change that would affect the American Taxpayer directly and — once again — make the American Taxpayer responsible not just for the US but other nations as well.

Here is an article from the UK Telegraph, emphasize my belief once again that if you wish to know what is happening around the world and in our own country, you can kick the American Media Maggots primarily to the curb.

The scandal of fiddled global warming data

The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record

by Christopher Booker

When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence of this seven years ago, when I was writing my history of the scare, The Real Global Warming Disaster. But now another damning example has been uncovered by Steven Goddard’s US blog Real Science, showing how shamelessly manipulated has been one of the world’s most influential climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data. In several posts headed “Data tampering at USHCN/GISS”, Goddard compares the currently published temperature graphs with those based only on temperatures measured at the time. These show that the US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record; whereas the latest graph, nearly half of it based on “fabricated” data, shows it to have been warming at a rate equivalent to more than 3 degrees centigrade per century.

Please note: “the US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record.”

I ask, take the time to carefully read the rest of the article and click on the indicated notations.

Because Global Warming as a general meme had difficulty to the point that it became the very generic “Climate Change,” so is this meme having difficulty in standing up to the light of day.  And the largest launcher of the so-called “Global Warming” craze taken up by the Religious Left: the poor white bear on the itty-bitty ice shard:

Polar Bear Ice ChunkPoor polar bear.  Brutalized and reduced to riding an ice cube due to that Evil Man.  And thusly anthropogenic Global Warming was born.

Leftists don’t believe in religion because they don’t believe in God.  The only god they bow to is that of Global Warming, which requires every bit of faith or more to believe in than an overarching deity.  Hence the Religious Left dutifully believe in GW because other Leftists say so and it’s emphasized by those who likewise buy into the meme, as in teachers, major networks, Alphonse Gore, Demorats and other on the GW Bandwagon.  A bandwagon that requires only faith, not consistent and true facts.

BZ

P.S.

On that notion, the US Supreme Court — just today — placed limits on the EPA’s ability to decry “Global Warming” and kill coal.

From the WashingtonPost.com:

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday placed limits on the sole Obama administration program already in place to deal with power plant and factory emissions of gases blamed for global warming.

The justices said that the Environmental Protection Agency lacks authority in some cases to force companies to evaluate ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This rule applies when a company needs a permit to expand facilities or build new ones that would increase overall pollution. Carbon dioxide is the chief gas linked to global warming.

Imperial power, being used with regal impunity, courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama — who says: why go through Congress?  I can do anything I wish, myself.

Besides, if you really wanted to stop “Global Warming,” which Leftists believe is solely due to the rise of carbon dioxide emissions — the byproduct of human beings — then kill all the people.  Because the Religious Left say people are therefore responsible, I say: you first.

 

Photographs from Monterey, II

I have been en vacanza with my wife since last Sunday and, as I customarily do with coastal vacations, I enjoy sharing photographs.  So, without further ado, a few more (again, click on each one to embiggen appropriately) photographs for your consideration:

Habrob Seal, PuzzledSpotted harbor seal pondering the true Meaning of Life in Pacific Grove.

Navy Training Aircraft over MontereyNavy training aircraft cruising over the Bay of Monterey.

Egret, Light Footed In The KelpOriginally I could have said I had no egrets about this trip but, now, that would not be the case.  Light-footed little kelp-walkers, those.

DSCN0292A baby pelagic cormorant in its nest.  This nest was just a few feet down and away from our hotel room.  Babies have white whiskers and blue in their bills.  One morning we noticed the bird was gone; we feared the lad had fallen overboard during the night.  We were pleased to see he had taken brief leave because he had learned to fly.

Egret, VerticalThe closest to walking on water any earthly mammal will get.  It was always an  amazing sight to behold.

Pacific Grove CoastlinePacific Grove, one of the most beautiful little coastal towns I know.

Monterey PeninsulaAbove, you can see the relationships between Monterey, Pacific Grove, Highway 1 and the rest of the Monterey Peninsula.

Northern Fur Seal, Monterey BayNorthern fur seal, snoozing above the waterline in Pacific Grove.

NOAA Bot Out of Monterey MarinaNOAA boat out of Monterey.  It represents, as you can see, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.  This is the first time in seven visits that I have ever seen this boat in action; it is normally moored adjacent the muni pier next to the USCG boats.

Monterey Bay Muni MarinaThe NOAA vessel is the last one at the far right, above.

Otter Enjoys Shellfish LunchOne of our otter friends enjoys cracking open a new case of Shellfish Lunch.

Celebrity Century ParkedAnd then, overnight, the Celebrity Century anchored in Monterey Bay adjacent Old Fisherman’s Wharf.  At 814 feet long and weighing in at 72,000 tons, it had stopped to shuttle passengers to and from the wharf, all day.

Century Ferrying PassengersLittle orange-and-white boats shuttled about for hours.

Celebrity Century Beautiful DayThe Celebrity Century arrived on an absolutely gorgeous day, amidst various rain showers.  The clouds cleared, miraculously, for my shots of the ship.

Celebrity Century Shows Its AssHere, the Century hauls fantail out of the bay.  It is registered out of Malta.

Celebrity Century LeavesThe Celebrity Century disappears around the peninsula, another in a series of massive diesel-electric cruise liners built by Fincantieri of Italy.

DSCN0566The Tierra Lynn tacks amidst glorious colours.

Reelization Comes From Haing Reeled InThe Reelization comes in after having reeled in.  A great name for a boat.

Scuba Divers TrainingMonterey can be a very dangerous place for SCUBA divers, or any diver for that matter.  The California coast is cold, dangerous, uninviting, and challenging.  However, the San Carlos Beach Park is a major attraction for those who wish to acquire their certification because of its relative ease of entry for novices.  Still and all, the kelp and their beds are huge and difficult provocational tests for divers.

San Carlos Beach Park, Monterey Bay, CASan Carlos State Beach.

Windrose TackingThe Windrose, tacking.

Because I am in many ways a cheap bastard, these photographs were not taken with a standard DSLR camera but, instead, a much, much less expensive Nikon Coolpix P510 camera with a 42X zoom.  I do, however, enjoy the red variant that I purchased as illustrated.  It is a deceptively small camera.  But I have always said: the eye exists with the finger, and not the chassis.

Nikon Coolpix P510 RedWith only one more day left to visit as I write this, I find myself challenged to come up with a Flip UltraHD video of the area.  Will I be able to do it and then upload it to YouTube so that I may post it here in time?

And finally: a question for those electronics & video wizards who may chance by this blog:

Some day, because it is no longer produced or supported by Cisco Systems, my Flip UltraHD camera will tank; that is a given.

Can anyone recommend a good quality HD cam to replace the Flip?  It doesn’t have to be as small or as cheap, but it should contain an average amount of features and maintain good HD resolution and quality.  My budgetary range is up to $1,000 before I get into a bit of the Prosumer category.  Any suggestions for me?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Thanks for reading, thanks for commenting, and thanks for sticking by ol’ Zep.

Zep-DinerBZ